Cut-off for conductors



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J- D. SHEPARD.

GUT-OFF FOR GONDUOTORS.

No. 451,779. Patented May 5,1891.

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J. D. SHEPARD.

GUT-OFF FOR GONDUGTORS.

No. 451,779. Patented May 5,1891.

NHE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS D. SHEPARD, OF AKRON, OHIO.

CUT-OFF FOR CONDUCTORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,779, dated May 5, 1891.

Application filed November 22, 1890- Serial No. 372,342. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JULIUS D. SHEPARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Out-Oits for Conductor- Spouts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to thatclass of devices arranged to be connected with the conductor-pipe which carries the accumulated rain-water from the roofs of buildings and by which the water may be directed to a cistern or to waste, as desired. The cut-oft devices as ordinarily used are employed to first permit the water to waste and afterward to divert it into the cistern.

The object of my invention is to producea cut-off which shall permit the water to waste when the flow is slight and to automatically change as the flow increases and to provide adjustable devices by which the flow of the waste water may be regulated, and also to provide a strainer by which particles of matter held in suspension may be arrested.

To the aforesaid object my invention consists in the peculiar construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved cut-off; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, an elevation of the rocking gate; Fig. 4:, a central vertical section of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, an elevation of the rocking gate, looking toward the left of Figs. 3 and 4:; Fig. 6, a plan of the rocking gate; Fig. 7, a central vertical section of my improved cut-oft at the line y y of Fig. 8, and Fig. 8 a similar section at the line a: 00 of Fig. 7.

Referring to the drawings, A is a cylindrical case, having a spout B, which enters the top of the case and conducts the Water thereto from the roof, and two pipes O D, which leave the case from opposite sides of its lower half, the former leading to the cistern and the latter to the waste. The upper part E of one side of the case is hinged to the lower part and constitutes a door through which the interior case can be reached for repairs or cleaning. Pivotally suspended by means of the pin F inside of and eccentric to the case A is a rocking gate G, of the peculiar form shown, having side walls and a curvilinear bottom, so shaped as to swing inside of the case A close to but without encountering its inner periphery. In the bottom of this gate, and, when itis held in the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4, directly abovethe pipe D, is an opening I-I, acrosswhich is a sliding gate I, arranged to be moved to partially or wholly close it, as desired. At the opposite and upwardly-curved end the bottom is perforated to constitute a strainer J for the water when required, as hereinafter described. The gate G is normally held in the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4 by a weighted shelf K, in which position the water falling into said gate will flow through the opening H into the waste-pipe D and will not escape through the strainer J until the gate G is rocked downward at that end, when it will be cut off by gravitation from the pipe D and flow through the strainer J into the pipe 0.

The parts are so adjusted that while the rain-fall is slight the Water will flow through the opening H into the pipe D; but as the flow increases its weight will rock the gateG and permit the Water to flow through the strainer into the pipe 0.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with the case A and pipes B, C, and D, of the rocking gate G, having side walls and a curvilinear bottom pivotally mounted in said case eccentric thereto, provided with the opening H, strainer J, and counterbalance weight K, constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the case A, having the pipes B, O, and D, of the rocking gate G, having side walls and a curvilinear bottom pivotally mounted thereon, provided with the strainer J and opening H, and the sliding gate I, by which the flow of water through the opening H may be regulated,

' substantially as shown and described.

8. The combination, with the case A, having the door E and pipes B O D, of the rocking gate G, having side Walls and a curvilinear bottom pivotally mounted therein, provided with the strainer J, opening H, sliding gate I, and counter-balance K, all constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set my hand.

JULIUS D. SHEPARD.

In presence of O. R. HUMPHREY, O. E. HUMPHREY. 

